OCTOBER 5-7, 2023 - LAKE HARTWELL

• Please allow yourself a little extra time tournament morning, to be in the water and ready to go by 6:45 am.  Hopefully we don't have weather delays or delays due to other tournaments. 
• The tournament trailer will be parked close to the ramp in the morning, and then in the Ampitheatre in the afternoon.
• Check in at registration prior to launching, or after you have launched. There is a large “concession” style window on the trailer, where we do morning registration. Check in there to verify your blast off number and pick up your numbered red key float. 
• The red key float is used for afternoon check in.  
• Livewell check will be done before blast off. A tournament official will check your livewells and mark it off his sheet. If your number isn’t marked off, your catch will not count. 
• Livewell check will be from the dock/fishing pier
• We will have brief announcements, national anthem, and prayer before blast off. 
• Blast off numbers will be called via megaphone on the dock, we don’t do a drive by blast off. You’re all grownups. Listen for your number, and do not take off early.

• Your numbered key float is to be turned into the small black window on the stage side of the trailer before or by your check in time for your flight. You are not “checked in” until the float is turned in.
• Flights are in groups of 20.       
• The trailer will be at the Ampitheatre.   
• Scales open approx 3:50 pm.

                FLIGHT           BOAT NUMBERS            CHECK-IN

                  1                            1 – 20                                     4:00 PM

                  2                            21 – 40                                   4:15 PM 

                  3                            41 – 60                                   4:30 PM

                  4                            61 – 80                                   4:45 PM

                  5                            81 – 100                                5:00 PM

• When you check in, please take a mesh bag. The mesh bag should be placed inside your weigh in bag, and then add water and your fish. Once you get to the tanks at the trailer, please pull the mesh bag of fish from your bag, and place the mesh bag into one of the holding tanks (hold on to the bag by the handles to keep your fish from jumping out).
• You may trailer your boat before weighing your fish if you launched at the tournament ramp. 
• The scale line will close 20 mins after the last flight, 4:35 pm.
• Checks will be awarded after the polygraph exams have been completed.